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People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do. Michelle Vestur

People who want to share their religous views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. Dave Berry

It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.  Source unknown

If you see a whole thing--it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.....But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. Ursula K. Le Guin

God gave us burdens, also shoulders. Yiddish proverb

I have been a stranger in a strange land. Exodus 2:22

We keep our distance. It is all we have. Richard Shelton

We do not understand the earth in terms either of what it offers us or of what it requires of us, and I think it is the rule that people inevitably destroy what they do not understand....Our model citizen is a sophisticate who before puberty understands how to produce a baby, but at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato.  Wendell Berry

In a consumer society, there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. Ivan Illich

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand. Baltasar Gracian

There's a phrase in West Africa called "deep talk." When a person is informed about a situation, an older person will often use a parable, an axiom, and then add to the end of the axiom, "Take that as deep talk." Meaning that you will never find the answer. You can continue to go down deeper and deeper. Maya Angelou

Nature never said to me: do not be poor. Still less did she say: Be rich. Her cry to me was always: Be independent. Sebastian-Roch Nicoclas de Chamfort

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. Woodrow Wyatt

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife...Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest. Beatrix Potter

Rich folks always talks hard times. Lillian Smith

You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it.  They are or they are not.  Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.  Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind.  Jeanette Winterson

The highest art is the art of living an ordinary life in an extraordinary manner. Tibetan saying

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poingnant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. Andrew Harvey

Wine is water, held together by sunlight. Galileo Galilei

After all, what is reality anyway? It's nothing but a collective hunch. Jane Wagner

I don't think I can learn from a wild animal how to live in particluar....but I might learn something of mindlessness, something of the purity of living in the physical senses and the dignity of living without bias or motive. Annie Dillard

As you are, so is the world. Ramana Maharshi